The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
At first, good rates allow banks to provide interest GRAB
Intelligence to grasp king's decree WRIT
Largish figure has last of French and German wine HUNDRED
Begs fashionable models to eat seconds INSISTS
Participants in chess game in central London area KNIGHTSBRIDGE
Does one come late to lessons? MATURESTUDENT
Party noisily in bar, spinning around REVEL
Aristocrat about to drink Italian wine in citadel BASTION
French cheese sandwiches dry, large and fragile BRITTLE
Sleep in regularly? Certainly, for relaxation LEISURE
Liverpool's left-wingers? REDS
Best bra designed by individual to show bit of chest BREASTBONE
Picked up tea, beers and pork pies TALES
Drove back from Timbuktu, say, reversing into road URGED
Drunk after non-alcoholic drink? It's indisputable WATERTIGHT
A few light struggles? This shows I surrender WHITEFLAG
Society girl catching boat west in dodgy place to surf DARKWEB
English tabloid journalist was a correspondent EMAILED
Switch positions, crossing oceans in slack period for travel OFFSEASON
Employee who records what ref may do if goalie commits foul BOOKKEEPER
Engineers raised money in Durban, given small tasks ERRANDS
Cover up Miss Woodhouse's awkward situation DILEMMA
Sign one's expecting minor collision BUMP